Gertrude Wright News Today

She searched Magdeburg for her relatives but found them ‘all dead; they had asphyxiated in the firestorm and were swollen up like balloons…’

Gertrude Wright, who has died 18 days short of her 100th birthday, lived an adventurous life. She was born in the German city of Magdeburg, and survived the massive Allied bombing of early 1945; witnessed American forces searching for the inventor of the V2 rocket; fled from the advancing Russians; and ended up as a translator in Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery’s headquarters in Lüneburg shortly after the German surrender, where she met her future British husband.

A rare blue crawfish at J.T.’s Seafood has become a fan favorite.

Death notices and funeral announcements from the Hull Daily Mail this week Tributes to those who have passed away in recent weeks Tributes have been paid to, from left, Desmond Kirby, Janice Hindley and Alan Wheeldon (Image: funeral-notices.co.uk) Sign up to the Hull Live newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! We use your sign-up to provide content in ways youve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. ...